Viewpoints

QFINANCE viewpoints provide you with the distilled thoughts of finance leaders and experts, outlining their current thinking on the crucial issues and challenges facing finance managers, entrepreneurs and business executives. The contributions are drawn from an array of practitioners and thinkers from the world of finance and business.

Tools of the Trade: Financial Risk Measurement by Brandon DaviesThis article was first published in Quantum magazine.Measuring risk effectively is vital. But if the tools that are used to do so are inappropriate, the result may be a very accurate wrong answer—and, consequently, disaster, as with the current series of financial crises.